Tuesday 16 April 2013

Spice of Life

My choice from a week's work at Hawke's Bay Today J
 
Remember a few months ago I photographed a leucistic blackbird? This week I got a tip about an unusual seagull in Akina Park, Hastings
 
Leucistic too? A young black-backed gull in Hastings photograph
Leucistic? A young black-backed seagull in Hastings - HBT131395-01

In flight, revealing the colour under its wings, a white and tan black-backed gull in Hastings photograph
In flight, revealing the colour under its wings - HBT131395-02

One of its mates, a black-backed gull, aka kelp gull, aka Karoro photograph
One of its mates, also a black-backed gull, aka kelp gull, aka Karoro - HBT131395-03
 
(see more comment on BirdingNZ.net)
 
Mary-anne Scott, author, Havelock North, pictured at the "very supportive" Poppies Bookshop, Treachers Lane, Havelock North. Her book, Snakes and Ladders, received a nomination in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards photograph
Happy author - HBT131392-01

Ted Hill, Percival Rd, Hastings, tending a rubbish fire on the first day the Prohibited Fire Season (Total Fire Ban) was lifted and replaced with a Restricted Fire Season photograph
Happy orchardist - HBT131394-02

 

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